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Gateway laptop, bad hard-drive?....

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I have a Gateway laptop solo series, when I proceed with the format C:, it reads the following: - Formating 9,590.24M (partition) - Then "Trying to recover allocation unit"......continues up to the # 199,921. - System stops, pattern noise from disk reading heard repeatedly, remains locked on 199,921. - Then says "Not ready. Format terminated." It will always do this, I suspect the hard-drive is bad, however, this certain model of Gateway laptop does not have a user-replaceable hard-drive.....thus I have not been able to replace it myself. Any suggestions? This is a very knowledgeable crowd on this forum. Many Thanks mrmr.

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